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Casio Men's WVM120DJ-7 Solar Atomic Metal Watch

• Solar Atomic watch with multi-band 5 functionality have the ability to receive signals from up to 5 towers
• Perfect accessories for business wear, with convenient functions such as world time
• World time, 5 alarms and silent mode; 100M water resistant

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Casio Men's Solar Atomic Metal Watch #WVM120DJ-7 combines the classic styling of a dive watch with a sporty, full-featured digital interface. Versatile and reliable, this timepiece never needs resetting or batteries thanks to Casio's Solar Power and Atomic Timekeeping technology. With its classic dive style design (which includes features like a rugged stainless steel band with a fold-over-clasp), this handsome timepiece is ready for a day at the office or inspection by the ship's divemaster. The watch's reliable quartz movement is solar powered--which accurately keeps time up to eight months without further exposure to light. And if you're in the US, UK, Germany, or Japan, the watch receives time calibration radio signals (up to six times per day), so you always know your watch is set to the right time. Other technical features include three daily alarms, an LED light with Afterglow technology, a world clock with 29 time zones, four daily alarms , a 1/100 second stopwatch that records split time, a calendar (pre-programmed until the year 2099), 12- and 24-hour formats, and water resistance to 330 feet (100 meters).

The Casio Story

With the launch of its first watch in November 1974, Casio entered the wristwatch market at a time when the watch industry had just discovered digital technology. As a company with cutting-edge electronic technology developed for pocket calculators, Casio entered this field confident that it could develop timepieces that would lead the market.

In developing its own wristwatches Casio began with the basic question, ""What is a wristwatch?"" Rather than simply making a digital version of the conventional mechanical watch, we thought that the ideal wristwatch should be something that shows all facets of time in a consistent way. Based on this, Casio was able to create a watch that displayed the precise time including the second, minute, hour, day, and month — not to mention a.m. or p.m., and the day of the week. It was the first watch in the world with a digital automatic calendar function that eliminated the need to reset the calendar due the variation in month length. Rather than using a conventional watch face and hands, a digital liquid crystal display was adopted to better show all the information. This culminated in the 1974 launch of the CASIOTRON, the world’s first digital watch with automatic calendar. The CASIOTRON won acclaim as a groundbreaking product that represented a complete departure from the conventional wristwatch.

Casio transformed the concept of the watch — from a mere timepiece to an information device for the wrist — and undertook product planning based on this innovative idea. We developed not only time functions such as global time zone watches, but also other radical new functions using Casio’s own digital technology, including calculator and dictionary functions, as well as a phonebook feature based on memory technology, and even a thermometer function using a built-in sensor. The memory-function watches became our DATA BANK product series, while the sensor watches developed into two unique Casio product lines of today: the Pathfinder series displaying altitude, atmospheric pressure, and compass readings.

In 1983, Casio launched the shock-resistant G-SHOCK watch. This product shattered the notion that a watch is a fragile piece of jewelry that needs to be handled with care, and was the result of Casio engineers taking on the challenge of creating the world’s toughest watch. Using a triple-protection design for the parts, module, and case, the G-SHOCK offered a radical new type of watch that was unaffected by strong impacts or shaking. Its practicality was immediately recognized, and its unique look, which embodied its functionality, became wildly popular, resulting in explosive sales in the early 1990s. The G-SHOCK soon adopted various new sensors, solar-powered radio-controlled technology (described below), and new materials for even better durability. By always employing the latest technology, and continuing to transcend conventional thinking about the watch, the G-SHOCK brand has become Casio’s flagship timepiece product.

Today, Casio is focusing its efforts on solar-powered radio-controlled watches: the built-in solar battery eliminates the nuisance of replacing batteries, and the radio-controlled function means users never have to reset the time. In particular, the radio-controlled function represents a revolution in time-keeping technology similar to the impact created when mechanical watches gave way to quartz technology. Through the further development of high radio-wave sensitivity, miniaturization, and improved energy efficiency, Casio continues to produce a whole range of radio-controlled models.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B002DMLKGG
• Item model number: WVM120DJ-7
• Batteries: 1 Lithium Metal batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,270 in Watches (See Top 100 in Watches)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a really great product. Best watch I have ever owned., September 10, 2009

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Michael Fougnie (Kentucky, USA) - See all my reviews

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I have owned this watch for about three months now, and love it. The solar power feature never lets the battery die. The shape of the watch makes is less easy to scratch. The screen layout is great and easy to read. Also, it has five alarm clocks to remind me to do different things. And of course, like any other Casio WaveCeptor watch, it is water proof and sets it's self and updates three times a day. This watch is priced very low for how well it functions. I highly recommend buying this product.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very impressive watch-- exceeds my expectations, June 3, 2010

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True American Patriot "Thomas Paine" (WA USA) - See all my reviews

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I bought a Casio WV-M120 (Module 3090) from Amazon in December 2009. With its stainless steel band and bezel, it is very tough and in my experience over the past six months of using it, I am completely happy with its performance. After reading the instruction book, I was a bit apprehensive about warnings it gave about the radio sensitivity of the RESIN BANDED Waveceptor watches, specifying recommended azimuthal orientation and placement on a window sill, and warning of proximity of hills or tall buildings, etc, that could affect reception of the correction signals. In six months of use, I have found that the watch performs flawlessly, consistently.

Beginning at the stroke of midnight, the watch removes the 'RCVD' indication on its dial. Thereafter, from 1am to 5am, the watch can receive up to five correction signals until one is successful. My watch has performed this routine successfully every night, without my giving it any special placement or any conscientious attention at all. It is fully and completely automatic. I always sleep wearing the watch, and every morning I see from the 'RCVD' indication on the dial that it has set itself to within a micro-second of the correct time. My bedroom is upstairs, on the N side of a 102-year-old frame house with a shake roof, nestled at the foot of 3 steep hills to the S, W, and N, with only the E facing clear to the river bend 500 feet away and, beyond, more steep high hills 2,500 ft E of the river. The point is that my Waveceptor always receives the signals at maximum level as indicated on its dial, and it has done this every night when reception begins, even though surrounded by hills, and 8 feet away from the nearest window. That stainless steel band and case definitely helps reception. I live in the Pacific NW, very close to the ocean, about 1,000 miles from Ft. Collins, Colorado, where the time correction signals are broadcast. When the watch arrived, the battery charge indicator on the dial was reading Medium, because it had been in total darkness in its box since manufacture, with no exposure to light. The watch will charge the battery via its solar cell even under a flourescent desk lamp, but it will charge 100+ times faster under direct (not through a window pane) sunlight, so I placed it outside for a couple of hours, and the indicator went to full charge in just a couple of hours. From a fully charged battery the watch will run for 8 months before the battery is completely discharged, even if it is kept in total darkness. Wearing it outside on bright sunny days, if the watch is not always covered by your sleeve, it should continue to keep itself fully charged until the rechargeable battery wears out, which should not happen for ten years or more. I write this because I have an old Casio watch in my desk drawer that has one worn out button, and that single bad button requires me to open the case and short out the contacts inside the case to reset the time and date, because that time-setting button no longer works with the case closed. But that watch is more than ten years old, and is still running on its original battery, showing a good strong display, even though it does not show the correct time. I can't change its settings without taking the case apart, which I did for two years when I wanted to change it from standard to daylight time. Since I no longer bother to open the case, it now runs 6 minutes fast. That is the watch I was using before I bought the Waveceptor. The Waveceptor can even be set to automatically turn on the dial light with a flick of your wrist, so there is no reason to use the buttons at all once it is set to your time zone and 24-hour display if you want it.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works well but I wish the case was all metal., June 9, 2010

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Douglas Chin "curious dad" - See all my reviews
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This watch works very well and I like it a lot. To maintain the time, it attempts to receive and synchronize to a government run transmitter. In the US, the transmitter it uses is in Colorado. The signal does not propagate well during the day so the watch attempts to receive it at night. In Auto Receive mode, each night, it tries up to 6 times to synchronize with the transmitter. The attempts are an hour apart. Once it has successfully received the signal, it stops trying until the next night. I live in New Hampshire and the watch usually manages to receive the signal on its first try at midnight . When that has failed, it has always managed to receive it at 2AM. The manual suggests you take the watch off at night and point it in a direction that works well but I haven't had to do this. I just wear it to bed and haven't had a problem. I have tried manually receiving the signal during the day but that has never worked.

There are a few issues with Amazon's description of this watch. It doesn't have 3, or 4, daily alarms. It actually has 5 and one of them even has an optional snooze mode. The backlight is actually EL not LED. The afterglow aspect of the illumination is very subtle and it's not even mentioned in the manual. The alarm is not as loud as I would like but is usable in an environment that isn't noisy. You probably wouldn't hear it in a crowded restaurant. I like the watch's 4 button user interface. The common button meanings are labeled on the front as "mode", "adjust", "light" and "receiving" and there are different button labels embossed on the back, "Select", "Hold Set", "Set(-)" and "Set(+)"to remind you of how the watch is adjusted.

There are only two things I don't like about this watch. It is a little large. I considered getting a non-solar powered version because they are a little thinner. The watch is also described as having a metal case but it appears to me that it actually has a plastic case with a metal cover over most of it. I'm not absolutely sure about this but it certainly looks that way. Although the metal part looks fine and doesn't look cheap or anything, there are parts of the plastic case that can be seen when you are wearing the watch. Although the plastic parts are colored to go nicely with the metal, I am concerned that, in a few years, the color will have worn off and will no longer match the metal. It's possible that the color of the plastic parts goes all the way through the plastic so this won't happen but I'm guessing it's just paint. I have owned other plastic bodied watches that the paint has worn off of and changed color as a result.